News of 26 October 2026
38 storiesThe shoebox-sized satellite, built by students and staff over four years, sent its first signal to the ground station on the university roof shortly after launch.
Around 3,200 homes in Netherby are without running water after a large main burst beneath Holloway Road this morning. Bottled water stations are being set up while engineers work to isolate the pipe.
The family-owned baker will add two production lines and a new packing hall, in what it says is the largest single investment in its 94-year history.
The Gulls edged Ostbridge Mariners 104-101 after two extra periods at the Harbourside Arena, with the final basket coming with four seconds left on the clock.
Nordlys Rail says sleeper carriages will run three nights a week between six port cities, with a stop in Wrenhaven's twin town Velde. Ticket sales are expected to open in the new year.
From a converted boathouse to a former post office, a new generation of bakers is reviving long-fermented bread, and customers are queuing for it.
When the downpour arrives the city changes pace; lights multiply on the tarmac and footsteps quicken.
Wrenhaven's health service is adding late sessions at three community clinics after appointments for the first week of the autumn vaccination programme were fully booked within days.
Some residents had waited more than four years for a plot; new half-size plots and shared beds are helping beginners get started.
Councillors have approved a 24-hour service on three of the city's busiest bus routes, aimed at hospital staff, hospitality workers and late-night travellers.
A harbour scene that vanished from a council office in the 1960s has turned up wrapped in a blanket under the eaves of a terraced house in Millbrook. Its finder has given it to the city's art gallery.
Members in four neighbourhoods without a bank branch can now pay in savings, ask about loans and get help with budgeting on the same visit as borrowing a book.
From the Mediterranean to the Baltic, frames from the colourful world of boats moored in small harbours.
The new 14-station line cuts the trip between the centre and the coastal districts to 22 minutes. Rides are free for the first week.
From laptops to smartwatches, mixing desks to drones, the technology of everyday life.
From hillsides to plains, from sheep grazing beneath the panels to the view from the air.
Volcanic valleys, rock-cut dwellings and the balloons that lift off at dawn, told in photographs.
From a distance football becomes a spectacle of architecture: huge roofs, colourful seats and carefully mown grass.
A column of lava rose from the crater floor, feeding glowing flows beneath a grey plume of gas.
The Hallvard Seed Archive received more than 48,000 samples, including old varieties of wheat, beans and barley from the Asher Valley, as gene banks back up their collections.
Low cloud brought by colder weather poured over the red rock walls in slow waves.
From market vegetables to fruit platters, the colours of eating with the seasons.
Water and steam kept bursting from a rocky basin on a volcanic plateau for minutes on end.
Forty-one family farms have pooled €9.5m to turn part of their milk into hard cheese and butter, aiming to earn more per litre than selling it to large processors.
Harbourside won all 16 of their league matches to earn a place in the second tier, five years after the club fielded its first women's team.
The 2.4-kilometre lane will be separated from traffic by a raised kerb and planters, with work beginning in February and the seafront road reduced to one lane each way.
Timelapse footage from orbit captures the southern lights in full motion over the Southern Hemisphere.
When the snow falls the streets slow down; ploughs get to work, bicycles disappear and lights look warmer.
Footage from the space station shows city lights tracing the dark expanse of the sea.
Extra sessions at Kestrel Park, the university and Old Quay are being added as the regional blood service tries to build up stocks ahead of the colder months.
